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2012 ADC Executive Summary 22001122 CCEDAR­­RRIVERSIDE CCOMMUNITY SSPACE SSTUDY FFINAL RREPORT Cedar‐Riverside Community Space Study – September 2012 ADC Executive Summary The Cedar Riverside neighborhood is home to over 7,000 residents and numerous organizations that need space for meeting, gathering, performing, educational, social service, and other types of activities. Often times, the demand for space is greater than the supply in this densely populated neighborhood. In order to determine the community spaces available and types of community spaces most needed in the neighborhood, the African Development Center (ADC) conducted a community space study, with financial support from the Cedar Riverside Neighborhood Revitalization Program. After extensive outreach and information gathering, the ADC found that the Cedar Riverside neighborhood is sometimes lacking in both knowledge of and access to currently available community spaces. In order to increase the level of awareness of available space in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood, ADC has created a Space Inventory document, which can be found here as an appendix, as well as on ADC’s website. The space inventory provides information regarding specific locations and rental terms of available space in Cedar Riverside. ADC expects that this inventory will help community members to better utilize space currently available in the neighborhood. Despite the fact that several neighborhood organizations are willing to open their doors for community use, there is still a major need for more spaces. Neighborhood representatives reported that the greatest desires are: community spaces for youth recreation and related services, fitness/exercise activities, adult/elder activities, large events/gatherings and social services. Despite many creative and cooperative approaches occurring to meet space needs among organizations large and small, there are still significant unmet needs. Based on the study findings, ADC makes the following recommendations aimed at providing the neighborhood with adequate community space: 1) The many organizations interested in the issue of community space need to “get on the same page” to cooperatively define the problem and commit to finding a solution. 2) The neighborhood needs to unite behind the improvement of spaces like the Coyle Center and Curry Park. 3) Major neighborhood institutions have to be encouraged to play an even larger role in meeting space needs. Cedar‐Riverside Community Space Study – September 2012 ADC 4) Developers of key neighborhood sites have to make efforts to accommodate community space needs. 5) More partnerships need to be developed that match space/programming needs with organizations that already have facilities and program staff. 6) The Space Inventory document needs to be continuously updated and maintained. 7) An individual and/or organization should be designated as the lead to take action on the above recommendations. ADC believes that following through on these actions can significantly alleviate space needs in the community. In the following sections of this report, ADC discusses the outreach, information gathering, and data maintenance conducted for this study. It also reports study statistics and results. Finally, it concludes with key recommendations based on study findings. Cedar‐Riverside Community Space Study – September 2012 ADC Table of Contents Methodology ........................................................................................................... 1 Outreach and Information Gathering .................................................................. 1 Data Maintenance ................................................................................................... 1 Results ..................................................................................................................... 3 Quantitative Results ............................................................................................. 3 Qualitative Results ............................................................................................... 4 ADC Response....................................................................................................... 8 Recommendations .................................................................................................. 9 Appendices ............................................................................................................ 11 Cedar‐Riverside Community Space Study – September 2012 ADC Methodology Outreach and Information Gathering ADC spent a significant amount of time meeting with neighborhood stakeholders to better understand their concerns and perspectives and also determine what spaces may be available for community use. ADC spent nearly two hundred hours contacting and meeting with individuals representing 30 organizations in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood. To jumpstart the space study, ADC staff brainstormed a list of approximately twenty people and organizations involved in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood. ADC then e‐mailed and called this list of contacts to schedule appointments. Next, project leaders created a basic questionnaire to guide the interviews conducted with stakeholders. ADC staff made an effort to meet at the interviewees’ place of work rather than at ADC, as they deemed it important to see firsthand the environment and space in which the organizations operate. To begin the interviews, ADC introduced its organization and the space study and then asked the interviewee to provide some background information on their role in the neighborhood. Next, ADC asked for three main pieces of information: what space the Cedar Riverside neighborhood needs; what spaces are currently available that the community uses; and what space (if any) the organization has that can be used by the community. Interview length varied greatly, lasting between twenty and ninety minutes. At the conclusion of each interview, ADC staff asked interviewees which organizations or people they suggest ADC also interview. This tactic proved extremely helpful. By using the network of community members, the contact list nearly tripled from twenty to fifty five people. During an eight week period, ADC interviewed 30 stakeholders. Interviewees represented a variety of interests including community groups, cultural/entertainment organizations, social service providers, educational and medical institutions, religious groups, developers and multi‐ unit housing owners/managers. Data Maintenance Throughout the study, ADC maintained several working documents in order to organize and record the process, responses, and results of the project. Such documentation has also helped to draw evidence‐based conclusions and recommendations. Below is a list and short description of key documents created during the study. Some of these documents are found in the appendices to this report. 1 Cedar‐Riverside Community Space Study – September 2012 ADC Contacts List A spreadsheet was developed with the contact information of stakeholders and organizations in the neighborhood. ADC interviewed thirty of the contacts. The document was also used to keep track of the status of the contact, whether they had been reached, met with, and whether their responses had been digitally recorded. A shortened version of this working document is attached as Appendix 1. Questionnaire This document was taken to each interview and completed in handwritten form by ADC staff. It is a one page document that prompts interviewers to fill in the key contact information of interviewees and then provides space for interviewers to fill in responses to the four principle questions: space needed in the neighborhood, space used in the neighborhood, space the organization may have available, and other people or organizations that should be contacted regarding the study. The Questionnaire form is attached as Appendix 2. Questionnaire Responses These documents are digital versions of the notes taken from the Questionnaires by ADC staff during the interviews. The responses contain information used to calculate space needs statistics. They also contain a significant amount of qualitative information and feedback from interviewees that is not reflected in the simple space needs statistics. Space Needs Statistics This spreadsheet records the responses to the first topic on the Questionnaire: space needed in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood. Interviewees did not have a limit to the number of needs they could list. The spreadsheet indicates the number of times a specific space need was mentioned among all interviewees and groups the space needs into broader categories. This document is attached as Appendix 3. Space Inventory The space inventory is the basis for the document posted on the ADC website. It lists individual organizations in the neighborhood, the details of their rental spaces and rental terms, and contact information in case someone is interested in renting the space. This document is attached as Appendix 4. 2 Cedar‐Riverside Community Space Study – September 2012 ADC Results Quantitative Results Statistics were calculated regarding community space needed in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood. As a result of responses compiled during the 30 interviews, 13 broad categories of space needs were identified. The percentage of responses by category were: Children's Play Cultural Venues Area/Tot Lot 3% Library/Computer 3% Lab 3% Multi‐Purpose Parking 4% 4% Youth Recreation/Related Activities 24% Business Services 6% Green Space/Outdoor Activities 6% Fitness/Exercise
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